[Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Tue Apr 11 14:16:08 CEST 2017


On Tuesday 11 April 2017 13:49:01 Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> You say we discourage cherry-picking. Why? Is that not a fairly
> natural way to backport
> bugfixes from a bleeding-edge branch to a stabler branch?

Afaict, it's because it's against the workflow of the RCS.

Are you proposing a everything-to-dev-cherry-pick-into-older-branches-only 
model?

Thanks,
Marc

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